[ietf-dkim] RFC5322 reference in RFC1652bis?

Jim Fenton fenton at cisco.com
Thu Feb 18 10:39:09 PST 2010


I'm missing a bit of context on this.  What's the impact on DKIM?

-Jim

Dave CROCKER wrote:
> Folks,
>
> The technical details of RFC1652bis must cite MIME AND SMTP, of course.  However 
> it happens that the details do not absolutlely need to cite RFC5322.
>
> However it strikes me as too strange to have a standard that pertains to message 
> objects not cite the /message/ standard.
>
> I'd like to have RFC5322 cited at the time MIME is cited, as Ned suggested 
> privately:
>
>
>    In
>    particular, a significant portion of the Internet community wishes to
>    exchange messages in which the content body consists of a MIME
>    message [RFC2045][RFC2046][RFC 5322] containing arbitrary octet-aligned
>    material.
>
>
> Does anyone object?
>
> d/
>   


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